Miss Grand Korea

Not to be confused with Miss Korea or Miss Queen Korea.

Miss Grand Korea (Korean: 미스 그랜드 코리아) is a lower concept of Miss Grand International that is held annually as a national female beauty pageant in Korea since 2020. This pageant is to select the representative for Korea to Miss Grand International, which is a pageant promoting World Peace and is against all violent conflicts.^[1][2]

Miss Grand Korea
미스 그랜드 코리아

Formation	July 6, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-07-06)
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Seoul
Location	South Korea
Membership	Miss Grand International
Official language	Korean
President	Choo Mi-jung
Parent organization	W.I.N Foundation (2024 –present)
Website	Official website

Miss Grand Korea licensee timeline

The current Miss Grand Korea titleholder is Park Ji-young of Seoul. Park was crowned Miss Grand Korea on June 4, 2023.

History

From 2013 to 2015, the Korean representatives at Miss Grand International were determined by appointing Korean-Canadians that competed in the Miss Earth Canada contest. Later in 2016, the 1L2H Company chaired by South Korean businessman Hyun Dae-Gon franchised the license for Miss Grand International in Korea. The 2016 titleholder was appointed with the first contest being held the following year 2017.^[3] In 2020, the marriage bureau company, Purples, and the Korea Premium Brand Association (KPBA), with Kim Ho-Seong as the president, purchased the Korean license for Miss Grand International and held the contest later that year with it airing on OBS Gyeongin TV.^[3][4]

There was a lawsuit between KPBA and the 1L2H Company about the use of the brand name for Miss Grand Korea. Still, the court rejected all the arguments from both sides since the court considered the brand Miss Grand International belongs to the CEO of Miss Grand International, Nawatt. The court arbitrated that the name Miss Grand Korea could confuse participants, so only those with a current license should use the brand name which caused the old organization to change its pageant name to Miss Glorize Korea in late 2020.^[3]

In 2024, the license was transferred to an entrepreneur, Choo Mi-Jung.

Editions

Date and venue

The following list details of the every Miss Grand Korea contest since the first one in 2017.

Year	Edition	Date	Final venue	Host Province	Entrants	Ref.
2017	1st	6 July	EL Tower (엘타워), Seocho	Seoul	27	[5][6]
2018	2nd	30 August	Dinozze Convention, Seongdong	Seoul	22	[7][8]
2019	3rd	12 July	Island Castle Hotel Resort, Uijeongbu	Gyeonggi	22	[9][10]
2020	4th[lower-alpha 1]	15 August	Grand Walkerhill, Gwangjin	Seoul	36	[3][4][11]
	—[lower-alpha 2]	22 October	Dinozze Convention, Seongdong	Seoul	12	[12]
2021	5th	29 October	Daejeon Convention Center, Daedeok	Daejeon	22	[13][14]
2023	6th	4 June	Grand Walkerhill, Gwangjin	Seoul	18	[15][16]

Competition results

Year	Miss Grand Korea	Runners-up				International Placements	Ref.
		1st runner-up	2nd runner-up	3rd runner-up	4th runner-up
2017	Park Ha Young	An Eunsaem	Yoon Mi Kim, Jeong Suji, Kim Sona	Not awarded		Miss Grand International 2017 Park Ha Young (Unplaced)	[17]
2018	Choi Min	Park Nae-yeon	Kim Gwang-eun, Jung Yoo-hyun, Kim Saeb-yeol	Not awarded		Miss Grand International 2018 Choi Min (Unplaced)	[18][19]
2019	Park Serim	Moon Jinhee	Lee Dojeong	Lee Woohyun	Yoon Sumi	Miss Grand International 2019 Park Serim (Unable to compete) Miss Global 2019 Lee Dojeong (Top 25) Global Asian Model 2019 Park Ji-soo (Unplaced)	[20][21]
2020[lower-alpha 2]	Oh Yuna	Lim Hyora	Lim Hayoung	Jeong Yurim	Kim Minji	Did not compete internationally (Miss Global, Miss Polo International. Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant)
2020[lower-alpha 1]	Lee Hyun-young	Choi Yuna	Shin Ye-eun, Gabin Lee	Moon Hye-rin, Son Ji-eun, Lee Da-yeon	Not awarded	Miss Grand International 2020 Lee Hyun-young (Unplaced) Miss Freedom of the World 2021 Gabin Lee (Asia)	[22]
2021	Lee Jiho	Lim Seon-Yeong	Lim Ga-Yeong, Lee Hyeon-Ah	Yoon Ji-won, Park Yeon-seo, Ahn Ji-young	Not awarded	Miss Grand International 2021 Lee Jiho (Unplaced)	[23]
2023	Park Ji-young	Han Da-yeon	Jo Hye-min	Lee Myung-hee, Lee Na-ra	Not awarded	Miss Grand International 2023 Park Ji-young (Unplaced) The Miss Globe 2023 Han Da-yeon (Unplaced)	[24]

Notes

1. Organized by the Korea Marriage Bureau & Korea Premium Brand Association
2. Organized by the SKPBA and 1L2H Company

Representatives at Miss Grand International

Year	Representative	Original national title	International result		National director
			Placement	Other award(s)
2013	Yuri Kim[25]	—	Unplaced[26]	—	Ronaldo Soriano Trono
2014	Sung Hye-Won[27]	—	Unplaced[28]	Top 19 - Best in National Costume
2015	Dasol Lee[29]	—	Unplaced[30]	—
2016	Yeseul Cho[31][32]	—	Top 10[33]	Miss Popular Vote[33]	Hyun Dae-Gon
2017	Park Ha Young[5][6]	Miss Grand Korea 2017[5][6]	Unplaced[34]	Top 25 - Best in National Costume
2018	Choi Min[7][8]	Miss Grand Korea 2018[7][8]	Unplaced[35]	—
2019	Park Serim[9][10]	Miss Grand Korea 2019[9][10]	Unable to compete[36]
2020	Lee Hyun-young[3][4]	Miss Grand Korea 2020[4][11]	Unplaced[37]	—	Kim Ho-Seong
2021	Lee Ji-ho[38]	Miss Grand Korea 2021[13][14]	Unplaced[39]	—
2022	Lee Juyeon[40]	—	Unplaced[41]	—
2023	Park Ji-young[42]	Miss Grand Korea 2023[42]	Unplaced	—
2024	Chang Yu-hyun[43]	Miss Korea Global 2023 Finalist	Unplaced[44]	Top 22 - Best in National Costume	Choo Mi-Jung
Color keys for the Placements at Miss Grand International   Declared as the winner   Ended as a runner-up (1st-4th)   Ended as a finalist (Top 10) or (5th runners-up)   Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20)   Ended as special awards

Winner gallery

• 
  Park Ha-yeong
  Miss Grand Korea 2017
  (Suwon)
• 
  Choi Min
  Miss Grand Korea 2018
  (Seongnam)
• 
  Park Serim
  Miss Grand Korea 2019
  (Gyeonggi)
• 
  Lee Jiho
  Miss Grand Korea 2021
  (Seoul)
• 
  Lee Ju-yeon
  Miss Grand Korea 2022
  (Seoul)
• 
  Park Ji-young
  Miss Grand Korea 2023
  (Seoul)
• 
  Chang Yu-hyun
  Miss Grand Korea 2024
  (Seoul)

National finalists

The following list is the national finalists of the Miss Grand Korea pageant, as well as the competition results.

Color keys

 W  Declared as the winner

  Ended as a runner-up

  Ended as a semifinalist

  Ended as a quaterfinalist

  Ended as special awards winner

 –  Did not participate

  Withdraw during the competition

Year Region	2017	2018	2019	2023
Ulsan	Jin Hye-ryeon	Han Ji-hye	Lee Yuna	Cho Hye-min (2nd)
Busan	Lee Na-hyeon	Kim Ga-eun (2nd)	Lee Ji-heun	Jeong Myeong-moon
Gwangju	An Seo-la	Kwon Min-ju	Jang So-yeoung	Choi Hae-won
Ansan	Mo Su-jin Mo	Hong Ah-li	—	—
Hwaseong	Yoo Soo-kyeong	—	—	—
Uijeongbu	Kang Jisoo	—	—	—
Siheung	Lee Hyeon-seo	—	—	—
Seoul	Kim Bitnal Yoonmi (2nd)	Kim Saeb-yeol (2nd)	Yoon Su-mi (4th)	Park Ji-young (W)
Sejong	Kim Suji	Kim Su-min	Kang Bo-mi	Shin Ye-ji
Goyang	Kim Da-jeong	Park Na-yeon (1st)	Lee Do-jeong (2nd)	Dahye Park
Gangwon	Jeong Suji (2nd)	Lee Mee-hee	Lee Woo-hyun (3rd)	Hong Ji-yoon
Namyangju	Ahn Eun-saem (1st)	—	Choi Dabin	—
Yongin	Moon Hee-seon	Lim Min-ji	—	Jeong Hye-bin
Anyang	Kim Joori	Shin Hye-rim	Hwang Jeong-eun	—
Daegu	Kim So-na (2nd)	Jeong Yu-hyeon (2nd)	Yoo Ha-kyung	Lee Hyo-joo
North Jeolla	Koo Bo-na	Ahn Su-hee	Lim Sujin	Lee Na-ra (3rd)
North Gyeongsang	Kim Ja-hyeon	Go Eun-byeol	Shin Soo-in	Hwang Ha-jae
North Chungcheong	Park Myeong-ji	Park Seo-ha	Park Ji-soo	Park Ji-yeon
Incheon	Lee Yuna	Jeon Seul-ah	Kim Seon-young	Jo Ye-eun
Bucheon	Lee Eom-ji	Kang Ha-seul-lin	—	—
Seongnam	Kim Mi-ri	Choi Min (W)	Lim Jeong-hwa	—
Gyeonggi	Kim Hyeon-ji	Kim Hyeon-ah	Park Se-rim (W)	Han Da-yeon (1st)
Jeju	—	Jo Hyeon-mi	Shim Bomi	Hyein Kim
Suwon	Park Ha-yeong (W)	Yun Jeong	Kwon Hee-young	Jin Ho-jeong
Daejeon	Lee Ji-yeong	—	Mun Jin-hee (1st)	Lee Myung-hee (3rd)
South Chungcheong	Lee Hanna	Jang Seo-yeon	Kim Hye-won	Yang Ji-eun
South Gyeongsang	Choi Hye-jin	Kim Hyeon-jin	Ko Eun-chae	Choi Yun-hee
South Jeolla	Yang Ji-won	Kang Su-bin	Park Yu-jin	Kim Seong-yeong
Total	27	23	22	20

Year No.	2020	2021
01	Lee Ga Bin (2nd)	Lee Jiho (W)
02	Choi Ko Ya	Ji Hyojin
03	Lee Hyun Young (W)	Lim Seon-Yeong (1st)
04	Shin Ye Eun (2nd)	Ahn Ji-Yeong (3rd)
05	Lee Ryu Kyung	Lee Ga-On
06	Choi You Na (1st)	Choi Ji-Hyo
07	Lee Da Jeong	Ahn Min-jeong
08	Lee Yang Ji	Lee Seo-na
09	Kim Seo Hyun	Kim Soo-Hyun
10	Koo Hyun Jin	Kim Bo-Song
11	Kim Han Bit	Min Chae-rin
12	Lee Da Yeon (3rd)	Yoon Ji Won (3rd)
13	Gong Ra Yoon	Lee Ye-jin
14	Shin Jeong Won	Lim Ga-Yeong (2nd)
15	Moon Hye Reen (3rd)	Kim Tae-rin
16	Choi Hye Eun	Choi Su-Bi
17	Lee Kyu Yeon	Park Ji-seon
18	Shin You Bin	Lee Su-Young
19	Han Hyun Hee	Park Yeon-seo (3rd)
20	Son Ji Eun (3rd)	Jeong Hye-won
21	Yoon Hye Jin	Park Su-jin
22	Kim Ria	Lee Hyun-Ah (2nd)
23	Yu Ji Yoon	—
24	Kim Yoon Jin
25	Shin Yi Won
26	Han Na Hee
27	Bang So Yun
28	Park Sang Hee
29	Koo Young Seul
30	Jung So Young
31	Choi Seung Hee
32	Park Saet Byeol
33	Seo Sol Bin
34	Jeon Chae Hyun
35	Yu Jae Sook
36	Lee Na Ra
Total	36	22

See also

• Korea portal

• Miss Grand International
• Miss Korea
• Miss Queen Korea
• Mister World Korea
• Mister International Korea

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External links

• Miss Grand Korea Official website
• 2016–2019 Former Licensee Website
• Miss Grand Korea on YouTube
• Media related to Miss Grand South Korea at Wikimedia Commons